Body Identified As Missing Woman

February 25, 1985

Des Plaines police said Sunday that a decomposed body found in a Metropolitan Sanitary District sludge tank was that of Ruth A. Hebling of Des Plaines, who disappeared on Jan. 11, 1983. Des Plaines Police Lt. August Schwiesow said the body was found Saturday in the tank at Oakton Street and Elmhurst Road in Des Plaines. Schwiesow said Hebling, who was 44 when she disappeared from her home, was depressed, and suicide by drowning was listed as the tenative cause of death.